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Chabrol also learned from Clouzot, whose bleak, brilliant melodramas--Le Corbeau, Diabolique, Quai des Orfčvres--allow for few heroes. Most of the characters are a blend of victim and villain. The Wages of Fear is a tale of four desperate men trucking a ton of nitroglycerin across bumpy South American roads. It's a brutal ride, relentlessly tense and informed by Clouzot's stop-watch timing and a tone that effortlessly juggles machismo and misanthropy...
...dawn of the AIDS crisis. Such high-stakes political, moral, and social issues could easily overpower a less skillful writer, turning the novel into mere sermon or satire. But Hollinghurst and his fictitious alter-ego are far too smart for that.Instead, we meet a brilliant, insecure Oxford grad with an exacting, reverential, and eventually obsessive eye for beauty, whether found in the heights of a Gothic cathedral, the curves of his first lover, Leo, or the electric rush of cocaine. He finds it quite often in the work of his hero, Henry James. The consciously Jamesian touches of both Nick...
...well in school, because that was what one was supposed to do. You played a musical instrument, because your parents inculcated that ability as a symbol of excellence. You ran for leadership positions because your teachers encouraged you to do so. (Of course there are some genuinely brilliant kids who have developed their talents without such constant prodding, but they fall few and far in between...
...want something that's more than sweet. You want something with strength and flavor." She loves to use a light muscovado sugar for her butterscotch layer cake ("You get the butterscotch flavor by doing nothing except using that sugar") or for marinades ("The big flavor of smoky muscovado is brilliant for barbecue...
...Siobhan played great,” Caples said. “She stepped up to the challenge and she was brilliant. I’m really proud of her. She has been working very hard and was prepared for this opportunity...